Post Reply - A new pandemic

-H5 types of flu had over 30 years to develop

-CoViD undermined immunity

-Result is H5-types of flu did get more chances

-Both CoViD and H5-flu (H5N1, H5N6, H5N8...H5N5 also showing up now) found in lots of species

DJ-In the US H5N1 (poultry litter to cattle-cattle litter to poultry) did get a "human boost". a lot of farmworkers do not have any medical care-no vaccinations. They however were/are in CoViD high risk groups. 

So H5N1 jumping into humans with no vaccine protection and CoViD immunity damage should not be a surprise. 

The US for a developed country-certainly in some states-has low level of CoViD vaccination. So-with a lot of deregulation on what to feed farm animals (litter) and a large internal-open-market the risks for a high number of human H5N1 infections may be explained. 

There are -for now- very limited (anecdotal) claims of human-to-human spread. However mammal-to-mammal (cattle, sea-mammals, pigs ???) is likely/proven. That is just a matter of time-it is on its way to human-to-human spread. The Canada/B.C. case indicating it can also be a more serious disease-a killer. 

SE Asia had a different type/variant of H5N1. I did read there may already be a 100 different variants of H5N1. It will spread/mix with other types of flu. Co-infect with CoViD. 

Best available tools are good info, PPE, reduction of meat production. Increased testing in all kind of animals-sequencing the detected viruses is urgent. Increase of vaccination may limit damage. 

For both climate and pandemics political fools do not help....so it will be "learning the hard way"...The Spanish Flu may have killed up to 5% of the global population. With 8,2 billion people that would be 400 million these days...

Further back in history the plague/"black death" could kill "a lot"-up to 100% in some areas...The CoViD immunity damage may give room to TB, measles etc. lots of diseases we hardly knew existed...so H5N1 is "just one of the problems"-the just started pandemic is an outcome of CoViD, may include much more then "only" H5N1...

The "killing potential" must be very large. The backgrounds of climate collapse and wars limit capacity for recovery...

Spaceship Earth sending out a mayday...

Just my non-expert view...black coffee is supposed to offer protection...